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October 19-22 & 26-29 @ 8 pm
October 23 & 28 @ 2 pm
Black Box Theater, Robinson Hall
UNC Charlotte
Buy tickets: www.unccboxoffice.com
The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will present the British farce, Cloud Nine, October 19-29. Set in Victorian Africa and 1970s London, Caryl Churchill’s comic, inventive and surrealistic look at sexual and racial politics broke ground when it premiered in 1979, winning Churchill an Obie Award in 1981. The play confronts sexual taboos and gender stereotypes head on, flaunting extreme behavior for both its humor and its instruction. It is for mature audiences.
Churchill is known for her non-linear, Brechtian approach to theatre and her exploration of feminist politics. Cloud Nine was her first play to receive wide acclaim.
“Cloud Nine, a new comedy by a British writer named Caryl Churchill, may not transport the audience all the way to Cloud 9 - but it surely keeps us on our toes,” wrote Frank Rich in The New York Times in 1981. “The evening's subject is sexual confusion, and Miss Churchill has found a theatrical method that is easily as dizzying as her theme. Not only does she examine a cornucopia of sexual permutations - from heterosexual adultery right up to bisexual incest -but she does so with a wild array of dramatic styles and tricks.”
The Department of Theatre will host a series of talk-backs following performances on October 20, 21, 27, and 28. Special panelists include Matt Comer, editor of QNotes and faculty from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.
The production is directed by Kelly Mizell-Ryan, lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Theatre. Performances will take place in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall on the university campus. Tickets are $14, $9 for seniors and UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, and $6 for all students. As part of the Arts & Science “Cultural Free for All,” tickets are available at a special “buy one, get one free” rate by calling the Robinson Hall Box Office at 704-687-1849.
About the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre
Offering a BA in theatre and a BA in theatre education, the Department of Theatre strives to inspire students to expand their vision of the world and themselves through the study and practice of the craft of theatre, preparing them for leadership as practitioners, educators, and artists. Students learn to participate in current critical discourse while engaging with the theory, history, and material conditions of performance, and broaden their personal horizons as they encounter a range of ideas and issues – political, social, and aesthetic – through the unique art form that is theatre. The program thus creates a rigorous intellectual environment firmly rooted in the theatrical art form.
